John Eldredge Quotes

I never had a father figure so I never missed it.

All children need their fathers, but boys especially need fathers to teach them how to be men.

I'm the father that Bow Wow never had.

There's a lot of single black women who did the best that they could and that's a beautiful thing, but they don't know how necessary a father is in a kid's life and how much guys miss that deep down inside.

Boys need fathers, and you can't do that in jail.

It is very difficult when you grow up without a father because you don't have a man who can give you direction and discipline.

Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

In the modern world, it may be that a living father can only be half a father to a boy - the dead father is the other vital half: the half that grows the boy up once and for all.

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.

Without fathers you would have no civilization.

One way of reading my life is that I have been in constant search for a father.

I think a lot of guys want a son because of all of the things they do while growing up. A lot of guys want to share those experiences with their own sons.

If I could change anything, I would definitely have had a father around. My father. I would definitely say it affected me deeply as a young man, coming up. Who doesn't want a father? Those are the beginnings, and those are what can dictate the roads you choose in life, and choosing them well.

I never thought of my father when I was growing up. Truly. He was a strong, silent man who worked hard to support his family.

Everybody's got a father. Even if he's not the nicest guy in the world.

Jeff Garlin is essentially my dad.

I'm a father of four girls and I know very much about the relationship between a father and his daughters.

Father' is such an arbitary word. Douche bag, on the other hand.

I have one regret: I wish I was a better father.

In every movie and every TV show, the dads are morons. And dads tend to react by doing what dads do best: They check out. They say, 'Ask your mother.'

My life has always been with my dad. Since I can remember, I was raised by my father my entire life. So he's kind of been that mom and father figure - always.

Young people know how important it is for dads to be involved in their lives. As I travel the country and talk with students, some of them tell me that their lives would be totally different if their father was around.

All my books explore fatherhood. I look at what it means to have a big father figure at the centre: sometimes they're a good father, sometimes bad.

Father's Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, 'This is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.'